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So they kept Paul in new Orleans to sell more tickets? Lulz best news for a Knicks fan
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You came in here telling us to go to your home page the Lakers thread, though. What he said applies to you too.
Wamp wamp.
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Stern: "More valuable to keep Paul with Hornets"
Clowns just trying to get a new owner; which still makes no sense because CP3 isn't going to stay there long term anyway. Asinine logic.
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grant knows whats up
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Actually that would have been a great trade for NO, especially from now to at least the next 3 years. I don't see how a team of Scola, Martin,
Odom, Ariza, Goran Dragic, Okafor, Carl Landry, and a possibly healthy David West wouldn't be on point with anybody. You have immediate
offense in both Martin and Scola, paint presence in Scola, Odom, Landry, and Okafor, nice up & coming (backup) point guard in Dragic, and
3s/perimeter shooting from Martin, Dragic, Ariza, Odom, AND Dragic. Now the Rockets would have taken a major blow, unless with the money
they'd save, they actually made big moves themselves.
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Originally Posted by Mamba MVP
Stern: "More valuable to keep Paul with Hornets"
Clowns just trying to get a new owner; which still makes no sense because CP3 isn't going to stay there long term anyway. Asinine logic.
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Originally Posted by NobleKane
grant knows whats uphe wants to keep playing
That training staff has uncovered the fountain of youth. You can't tell me otherwise
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stern talked about looking out for the small markets but just screwed a small market team because now the hornets arent going to get anything out of this...
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Dwight Howard's future clouds the start of Orlando's training camp on Friday.
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[h1]Aldridge: Magic considering filing tampering charges[/h1]
By David Aldridge, TNT analyst
Posted Dec 9 2011 11:53AM
The Orlando Magic are contemplating filing tampering charges against two unnamed NBA teams for illegal contact with its franchise center, Dwight Howard, according to a league source.
The Magic believe at least one of the teams have had contact with Howard -- who reportedly wants to be traded -- as recently as Thursday. If the team substantiates that belief, it will immediately file charges with the league, the source said.
Howard has not publicly indicated that he wants to be dealt, and privately, the communications between Howard, his agent, Dan Fegan, and the Magic have produced mixed signals. At points, Howard indicates he might want to stay with the Magic, who have become a championship contender on his watch -- only the Lakers and Celtics have won more regular season and playoff games over the last four years. But at other points, he indicates dissatisfaction with the makeup of the team. Orlando has had a contract extension on the table for Howard for some time, but he has -- like other star players in recent years -- not signed it.
ESPN reported early Friday that Howard will request to be traded to the New Jersey Nets. The source indicated that as of Friday morning, neither Howard nor his representatives had made such a request. NBA training camps opened Friday.
A trade to New Jersey would pair Howard with All-Star guard Deron Williams -- who, like Howard, is expected to opt out of the final year of his contract, not sign the extension offer on the table from New Jersey and become a free agent. In both cases, opting out is the financially smart move. Under the rules of the just-ratified new collective bargaining agreement, taking an extension on the existing contract could cost both players more than $25 million; signing a new deal after becoming a free agent would be worth more than $100 million.
The Magic, the source said, will not allow a repeat of the Shaquille O'Neal departure from Orlando to Los Angeles in 1996, when O'Neal walked as a free agent and the Magic were left with nothing. If the organization ultimately decides it has no choice but to trade Howard, it will do so. But the Magic will decide where he goes. The source said a reported proposed package by the Nets of center Brook Lopez and Draft picks for Howard is not at all interesting to the Magic.
The Magic, the source said, will not let Howard dictate the terms of where he wants to go.
"This will not be another Shaq situation," the source said. The Magic will "do what's in the best interests of the organization" and will not be left with nothing.
The Howard developments come a day after the NBA nixed a potential trade of four-time All-Star guard Chris Paul from the Hornets to the Lakers in a three-team deal that would have sent forward Pau Gasol to the Rockets and forward Lamar Odom to New Orleans. The Hornets would have received forward Luis Scola, guards Kevin Martin and Goran Dragic and a 2012 first-round pick from Houston.
A source directly involved in those talks said Friday morning that the Hornets were not planning to appeal the nixing of the deal, as ESPN reported Friday. Rather, the Hornets will try to see if sweetening the current deal in some way would make it more acceptable to the league, which currently owns the Hornets while it seeks a permanent owner who will keep the team in New Orleans. The Hornets also have several other possible deals on the table for Paul, and could go forward with one of those if teams involved in those deals make enhancements to their offers, the source said.
New Orleans' management, the source said, is determined to make a deal for Paul, who reportedly was not going to show up for the first day of the Hornets' camp. Like Orlando, the Hornets will not allow Paul to play out the final year of his deal, become a free agent next summer and leave with the team getting nothing in return
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the @$%+ you mean he's soft? They traded him only for the NBA to reverse it why in the hell would he want to come there after they just told the world he isn't wanted?
Ummm...both Odom & Gasol were known for being Charmin soft way before this trade thing man
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This is the line Stern needs to play HARD today. Throw a couple buyer rumors out there. Expedite a potential sale. This is how he can partially save face. Selling or relocating the Hornets needs to be pushed to the forefront of the NBA's priorities.
Will there be a press conference today?
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Grant's pension is gonna be good. He might be playing until nobody wants him.
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Just heard on ESPN that Brandon Roy is retiring due to medical condtions(bad knees)
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I don't get it
Jack/Dragic
Martin/Ariza
Odom/Ariza
Scola/Landry
Okafor
is that really much worse than
Paul
Jack
Ariza
Landry
Okafor
I'd take the team post trade than with CP3
Jack/Dragic
Martin/Ariza
Odom/Ariza
Scola/Landry
Okafor
is that really much worse than
Paul
Jack
Ariza
Landry
Okafor
I'd take the team post trade than with CP3
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Suns trade Pietrus to Toronto for 2nd round pick
Hill staying in Phoenix
Hill staying in Phoenix
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As a Portland fan, I would love it if Brandon went to the Suns. They'll work their voodoo and have him up and gunning again.
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Suns trade Pietrus to Toronto for 2nd round pick
Hill staying in Phoenix
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Hopefully Paul decides to go through the free agency route and the hornets value decreases even more.
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*MJ Voice*-"If you can't profit, sell the team."
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Originally Posted by Seymore CAKE
Originally Posted by NobleKane
grant knows whats uphe wants to keep playing
That training staff has uncovered the fountain of youth. You can't tell me otherwise
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As a Portland fan, I would love it if Brandon went to the Suns. They'll work their voodoo and have him up and gunning again.
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It's not about the team being potentially as good or better. Which is why the "basketball reasons" explanation they gave yesterday is such BS. It's about money reasons and trying to make the team attractive to sell. It's about everything but "basketball reasons". They are doing the Hornets a big disservice by essentially conceding that they'll lose CP3 for nothing this summer if they make him stay and effectively make it even harder to sell NO to an potential owner.
Wonder who the teams tampering were with Dwight are?
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Chris Paul's Jersey says it all: "NO LA"
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